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My home office is coming along nicely

Ben Halpern on October 28, 2019

I made this post last week... My new home office setup Ben Halpern ・ Oct 21 '19 #produ...

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Andrew (he/him) • Oct 28 '19

If I may make a suggestion:

Daniel Bean • Oct 28 '19

He is a loathsome, offensive brute. Yet I can't look away.

Fulton Browne • Oct 28 '19

@ben please add that 😂

Andrew (he/him) • Oct 29 '19

The people have spoken @ben

james • Oct 28 '19

How about a large DEV logo in rainbow colours?
My walls are completely bare in my room and I never know what to do with them...

Felippe Regazio • Oct 28 '19

i like the DEV logo idea

Ben Halpern • Oct 28 '19

DEV logo in a wood cutting might be really nice.

Like this kind of thing...

Felippe Regazio • Oct 28 '19

It would be beautiful, i presume

Andrew Brown 🇨🇦 • Oct 28 '19 • Edited

I would be concerned about knocking over that precarious-looking vase.
Also as talking Tobey Maguire spiderman?

Zohar Peled • Oct 29 '19 • Edited

Here are some guiding questions for you, hopefully they will help you decide:

What are things you never get tired of looking at?
What makes you really happy when you look at it?
What would you like the wall to tell you?

Answering these questions might help you focus on things you might want to put up on the wall - and obviously, no one can answer them for you.

AmberJ • Oct 31 '19

As someone who co-shares a home office with their partner and totally clashes on wall decor choices - I find that a good frame really goes a long way to making something like a Spiderman poster look classy. :) Office is looking great!

Jean Kaplansky • Oct 31 '19

It's so... clean... as if you don't have any cats, dogs, books, musical instruments... How is this possible? ;) [I have 5 cats and 2 dogs. At a certain point in the workday the cats decide they've had enough and come into my office to do what cats do... Trundle through, knock stuff over, and generally trash the joint until I do their bidding.]

Shannon Crabill • Oct 28 '19

This is coming along nicely!

Did you give yourself a set budget/timeline for getting your office up and running?

Ben Halpern • Oct 28 '19 • Edited

No timeline or budget. Since I owned mostly everything I used so far I haven't spent any money on this, but everything is definitely better set up than it was before.

I don't have a timeline but I'm immediately working on the next addressable item of wall decor.

We'll see about budget on future things.....

Ben Halpern • Oct 28 '19

Haha nice!

Garrett / G66 • Oct 30 '19

Thanks for sharing. I love looking at other peoples' workstations.

Livan Jimenez • Oct 28 '19

Ikea might be your best friend for this situation. Maybe just walking around the store might give you some inspiration. Check out their show room! (source: I used to work at Ikea a few years ago)